Bill Chadwick, Orgeon State University, and Scott Nooner, Columbia University, published their prediction in 2006 paper “Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research.” The volcano erupted on April 8 this year.

Evidence of the eruption was discovered on an expedition on July 28 by a remotely operated robotic vehicle (ROV).

“It is now the only volcano on the seafloor whose surface deformation has been continuously monitored throughout an entire eruption cycle,” said Nooner.